Ecological Networks - Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs

Klappentext Food webs are one of the most useful, and challenging, objects of study in ecology. These networks of predator-prey interactions, conjured in Darwin's image of a "tangled bank," provide a paradigmatic example of complex adaptive systems. This book is based on a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions, food web theory, structure and dynamics. The book explores the boundaries of what is known of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks and will define directions for future developments in this field. Zusammenfassung This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web theory, structure, and dynamics, joining researchers who also work on complex systems and on large nonlinear networks from the points of view of other sub-fields within ecology. Food webs play a central role in the debates on the role of complexity in stability, persistence, and resilience. Better empirical data and the exploding interest in the subject of networks across social, physical, and natural sciences prompted creation of this volume. The book explores the boundaries of what is known of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks and defines directions for future developments in this field.

Product details

• Authors: Mercedes Pascual, Mercedes (EDT)/ Dunne Pascual
• Assisted by: Jennifer A Dunne (Editor), Jennifer A. Dunne (Editor), Mercedes Pascual (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2005
• EAN: 9780195188165
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518816-5
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity; Santa Fe Institute Studies on; Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity; Santa Fe Institute Studies on
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology